<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>I want to add that I noticed those are recommendations. I don't know how this is handled in other countries or even in the States. However I often hear K land stations adding a suffix to their callsign, however we in Europe add the prefix.</div>
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<div>Examples:</div>
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<div>- when I operate on holiday from Greece I use <strong>SV2/</strong>DD5XX or SV7/DD5XX dependent on the area I'm currently at.</div>
<div>- when a US operator W1ABC operates in Canada I often heard callsigns like W1ABC/VY</div>
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<div>but some DXpeditions (small or big) often occur the right way, that means with the visited country as PREFIX (<a href="https://www.n1fd.org/2019/08/16/100-pound-dxpedition/">example here</a>)</div>
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<div>From the logical understanding one should always <strong>PREFIX</strong>ing indiciating the current position of the amateur radio station, NOT <strong>SUFFIX</strong>ing.</div>
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<div>just my 0.02</div>
<div>73, Saki</div>
<div>DD5XX</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 24. August 2020 um 09:30 Uhr<br/>
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<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] /LH suffix in callsign resolved as NORWAY</div>
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<div>Look <a href="https://www.ecodocdb.dk/document/category/ECC_Recommendations?status=ACTIVE#1802" target="_blank">here</a> and especially for <a href="https://www.ecodocdb.dk/download/2ae38a89-e58a/TR6101.pdf" target="_blank">T/R 61-01</a></div>
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<div><span style="left: 94.3834px;top: 879.512px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;">2.3</span><span style="left: 141.594px;top: 879.512px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;">When transmitting in the visited country the licence holder must use his national call sign preceded by </span><span style="left: 141.594px;top: 898.718px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;">the call sign prefix of the visited country as indicated in ANNEX 2:</span><span style="left: 631.792px;top: 898.718px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="left: 670.188px;top: 898.718px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;">ANNEX 4:</span><span style="left: 746.78px;top: 898.718px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;">. The </span><span style="left: 790.587px;top: 898.718px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;">call</span><span style="left: 815.587px;top: 898.718px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;"> sign <span class="highlight selected">prefix</span> </span><span style="left: 141.577px;top: 917.924px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;">and the national call sign must be separated by the character “/” (telegraph</span><span style="left: 723.972px;top: 917.924px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;">y) or the word “stroke” </span><span style="left: 141.577px;top: 937.13px;font-size: 16.6px;font-family: sans-serif;">(telephony).</span></div>
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<div>What I learned in my amateur radio exam was: <u>there are only three valid suffixes in callsigns</u> and those are /P /M and /MM, nothing more. There's no /AM, there's no /A or any other suffixes we often see in real life. Another document I found although not officially and valid international but worth a look is <a href="https://rsgb.org/main/archive/consultation-archive/ofcom-consultations/licence-review-preparation/licence-suffixes/" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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<div>73</div>
<div>Saki, DD5XX</div>
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<div style="margin: 0 0 10.0px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Sonntag, 23. August 2020 um 23:47 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support" <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br/>
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<b>Cc:</b> "Dirk Koopman" <djk@tobit.co.uk><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] /LH suffix in callsign resolved as NORWAY</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Clearly, that passed me by.<br/>
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Can anyone point me at a link?<br/>
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73 Dirk G1TLH<br/>
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On 23/08/2020 20:46, DD5XX via Dxspider-support wrote:</div>
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<div>and I thought IARU did that... at least I learned it on such a way. </div>
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<div>Saki - DD5XX</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Sadly the computer (nor the programmer responsible for it) is a mind reader.<br/>
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I don't know what one could sensibly do about this, other than suggest that prefix alterations go at the front and "someone" draws up, and then promulgates, a list of valid postfixes.<br/>
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73 Dirk<br/>
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<div>Hi all,</div>
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<div>currently I see lots of lighthouse activities and they are spotted with the suffix /LH on the cluster albeit this is not a valid and IARU conform callsign suffix. However, I realized that those spots are resolved as NORWAY on most of the cluster nodes.</div>
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<div><u>examples:</u></div>
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<div>DL1ABC/LH = Norway</div>
<div>W1XYZ/LH = Norway</div>
<div>PY1RST/LH = Norway</div>
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<div>I am using the most recent <a href="https://www.country-files.com/dx-cluster/dx-spider/" target="_blank">country list</a> on my DXspider 1.55 node although I know this cannot be the reason for that malfunction.</div>
<div>Any clues?</div>
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<div>73</div>
<div>Saki, DD5XX</div>
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